PART 2: WWII, Kharkiv, Ukraine and NAZI War Criminal Kurt Meyer
Prologue: This mission was undertaken due to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. We prefer to suppose army commanders are held accountable for the conflict crimes of their troops. Few are.
After the Conflict Kurt Meyer was charged with Conflict Crimes. He was tried and located responsible and sentenced to demise on December 28, 1945. The sentence was commuted to life in jail. He was despatched to Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick to serve his sentence.
The Regina Labour Council was upset that Meyer was pardoned and expressed their concern to the Canadian Authorities.
The conceited Meyer requested for particular privileges. He didn’t need to be housed with ‘widespread criminals’. Meyer was the one Conflict Legal serving his sentence exterior Germany. In 1950 he was returned to Germany to complete his life sentence.
Kurt Meyer was launched from the German Jail in September 1954 after serving solely 9 years for his Conflict Crimes. He died December 23, 1961. It’s recommended he was an conceited SS officer to the tip.
After his launch, on September 7, 1954, Meyer travelled to his hometown of Niederkruchten in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany the place a parade was organized in his honour. He was greeted as a hero.
Meyer was the Standartenführer, the commander of the twenty fifth Panzer Grenadier Regiment of the twelfth SS Division in Normandy. As chief, he was chargeable for the actions of his males.
In The Finish
Kurt Meyer was an SS Man to the very finish. Upon his launch he joined and held essential posts as a member of the Waffen SS Veterans Affiliation. For employment he turned a beer salesman promoting beer to NATO Forces stationed in Germany.
Kurt Meyer was born December 23, 1910 and died December 23, 1961, at age 51.
Out of respect for the hundreds killed by the Waffen SS, no insignia photographs are included.
Information Clipping In regards to the Homicide of Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford on June 7, 1944
The next photographs are from the Canadian Digital Conflict Memorial. This website, and Veterans Affairs Canada do a superb job of remembering the fallen.
In case you or your loved ones has scanned photographs of photographs and paperwork, I encourage you to go to the CVWM Website and add them to the file of your member of the family.
Douglas Sumner Orford – The Canadian Virtual War Memorial – Veterans Affairs Canada
Lance Corporal Douglas Sumner Orford
Died on Lively Service, June 7, 1944
Service Quantity: F/26412, Age: 23
Pressure: Military, Unit: North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C.
Born: February 2, 1921, Leytonstone, Essex, United Kingdom
Enlistment: October 27, 1939, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Son of Arthur James Orford and Gwendoline Dorothy Orford (nee Sumner), of South Woodford, Essex, England
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian Conflict Cemetery, Calvados, France, Grave Reference: II. A. 3.
Editorial Notes
The Chilly Conflict started in 1947. The Soviet Union turned the brand new Enemy. That is in all probability, partially, why extra former NZAIs weren’t prosecuted and why their wartime organizations have been tolerated.
Regina Aviation Historian Will Chabun informed me that within the ebook, A Assembly of Generals by Tony Foster, there’s a story of Kurt Meyer being flown by the RCAF to the Yukon the place he was used to elucidate how the Soviets would assault that space of Canada and Japanese Alaska. The Canadian army was counting on his expertise on the Japanese Entrance towards the Soviet Union.
NAZI SS Brigadeführer Kurt Meyer, NAZI Member #316714 and SS Member #17,559, joined the first SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, the “LSSAH”, Hitler’s private bodyguard in 1935.
For my part Kurt Meyer was nicely versed within the Elitist SS Doctrine by the start of the Conflict and definitely when he led a Panzer reconnaissance unit on the Japanese Entrance. And contemplating his lively membership within the Waffen SS Veterans Affiliation after the Conflict, he by no means ‘modified his methods.’
There was controversy about whether or not Meyer ought to have been convicted. He was the Commander; individuals below his command dedicated Conflict Crimes. He was a convicted Conflict Legal. The Canadian Navy ought to have by no means requested for advise on something.
Half one will be learn right here.
